Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recession. Some contractors needed work to pay for their expensive equipment, and they began making low bids, often at cost, to get the work. They complain bitterly about the price-chopping competition. One large builder says his profits are down 50% since 1957: another says his "are so slim they are almost negligible...
...over the names of guests who visited the summer camp where he directed conferences on peace. Uphaus refused, and in 1956 the state Superior Court cited him for civil contempt by a close 3-2 decision, with a minority which objected that "on a record such as this so slim a semblance of pertinency is not enough to justify inquisition violative of the First Amendment...
Where will it all end? Optimists claim that all the dieting is producing a new, slim American who will look as grand as the fashion ads. But there are mutterings that if it keeps up long enough, the Communists will overpower the U.S. without firing a shot. Americans will all get so skinny that the Reds will take over the country merely by sucking up the citizenry with vacuum cleaners...
...drizzle fell next morning as Chairman Liu stood beside Khrushchev and Soviet War Minister Rodion Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb to review the traditional parade through Red Square. The military parade lasted eight minutes, just long enough to flaunt a thumping train of Russian rockets, including a slim newcomer called the Silver Needle, which the Soviet press claimed was the kind that downed U.S. Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 last spring...
...championship game, Eliot House maintained a slim 1-0 halftime lead throughout the second half to down Yale's Calhoun College in a hard fought contest. Calhoun made repeated attempts in the second half to score on the tired Elephants but couldn't put a goal past sophomore John Marshall, last year's freshman goalie...